Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home town is ashamed of Frank T. Hachiya, but his country honors him. His was one of the 16 names which the Hood River (Ore.) American Legion Post struck from the county memorial roll because they were Japanese. Last week Private Hachiya's name was on another roll...
...Mayflower Hotel apartment in Washington lay Carter Glass, dean of the U.S. Senate. Now 87, the distinguished senior Senator from Virginia was frail and silent, enfeebled by age and long illness. Not for more than two years had he answered a roll call on the Senate floor. Virginia's junior Senator, round-faced, economy-minded Harry Byrd, had carried on for both...
...Ninth Army has remained under the overall control of Field Marshal Montgomery's Twenty-first Army Group, in order that "Monty" might coordinate the northern offensives. The Canadian thrust which reached Cleve threatened to roll up Rundstedt's right flank by a drive down the west bank of the Rhine. That threat may be a diversionary help to Simpson. Allied air power is already helping him, and the grueling strain imposed by the Russians is helping most of all. If Eisenhower and Montgomery have made his army their chosen instrument, he may be the man who will finally...
...prosaic facts about El Gitano were as exciting as the corrido. He was the leader of an outlaw-band which often held up big mining companies on pay day, distributed the payroll to poor mountaineers. An illiterate former peon, El Gitano paid his debts by holding out a huge roll of bills. Creditors took what they liked. His "G," scrawled on a .38 bullet, was a safe-conduct pass through Sinaloa's lonely hills...
...runs about $100,000. On one side of the shop is a Western Union ticker machine, its burden of basketball, hockey and fight results magnified on a moving screen. On the opposite side, half-time and final basketball results are chalked up on a large blackboard as they roll in. Behind the counter, house men with Edward G. Robinson accents answer a battery of telephones...